COMMENT | When US Democratic party candidate Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race in New York, a lot of people didn’t know who he is. Well, at least in Malaysia.

For me, when I heard his name, the only picture that came to my mind was Adam Sandler’s movie ‘You Don’t Mess With The Zohan’. Sorry, bad joke!

So, who is Mamdani? He is somebody that, in normal circumstances, would not be the mayor of New York City.

The son of Ugandan-Indian immigrants (actually, his mother is the famous filmmaker Mira Nair) talking about rent freezes, free public transport, and city-owned grocery stores. But somehow, people voted for him.

And while he was celebrating in Queens, I sat here in Kuala Lumpur thinking, how can I relate this to..